Resaca, Georgia.
Typical home $224,506 (+4.0% in a year). Calhoun, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$732 (+164%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,632 +4%
- $215,875$224,506 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,126 +42%
- $158,380$224,506 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Resaca$1,178
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Resaca, GA rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Resaca, Gordon County, Georgia
Resaca is a town of 1,142 people in Gordon County. Half its households earn more than $57,557 a year and half less, against $63,650 across Gordon County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Gordon County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gordon County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Resaca is a small town in Gordon County, with a population that keeps it well within the smallest of communities. Household incomes here run below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect, though only a small share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes are modestly priced for a town of this kind, and most people work outside the house and drive a fair way to get there. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with January the coldest month and August the warmest.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, schools and hospitals, shops, and the building trades. Across Gordon County, some of the largest workplaces are Mohawk Industries, AdventHealth Gordon and Gordon County Schools. Unemployment across the county has eased slightly over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up a little.
Things to do. New Echota, a protected historic area, is a short drive away, as is Lake Marvin, a reservoir. The Coosawattee River and Conasauga River, both a short drive away, offer time by the water. Farther afield, Fort Mountain State Park is a longer drive away.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Gordon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gordon County had 25,007 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 31°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 68°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dalton weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gordon County
- Adventhealth GordonGeneral hospital919FTE
- Mohawk IndustriesSales871
- Gordon County SchoolsSchool district868FTE
- Mannington MillsCarpets and rugs made from textile materials695
- Calhoun City SchoolsSchool district457FTE
- Shaw Industries GroupThread, all fibers, manufacturing446
- Shaw Industries GroupCarpets and rugs made from textile materials440
- Shaw IndustriesPrivate warehousing and storage except farm products, general merchandise, refrigerated439
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 58 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,866 people in all across the county; Resaca has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- DroughtVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Resaca’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Gordon County and the Calhoun, GA metro.
Resaca home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Resaca$224,506
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Resaca address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Resaca — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.